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I Care a Lot (2020)
Have never hated a character this much...
All I was hoping for was that she got what was coming to her in the end. She did, even though I wish it was a lot worse than it was.
Other than that, it was a frustrating watch as you're really following the antagonist throughout. Her scamming and robbing the elderly out of everything, really got under my skin.
It's well shot, well scored, but the story was too irritating.
The Flight Attendant (2020)
Doesn't really work for me...
This show tries to mix comedy and the thriller genre together, and it does not work. The main character, Cassie, is often very annoying. I read the actress is from the Big Bang theory tv show, and thought, yeah...from what I've seen of the show, that seems to be more her speed. She acts in that over the top, frantic, jokey, sitcom way. Given her predicament in the show, you'd think her emotions would match the severity of her situation, they often don't.
The subject material and how it was heavy on the sitcom like humor, just didn't mix. It made things very unrealistic and pulled me out of it.
Da 5 Bloods (2020)
Spike Lee with another miss...
Another subject Spike should of nailed and didn't. First, Chiraq, now this...
I was pretty excited to see this film, but after viewing it, I was pretty disappointed. Though the film is very well shot (the cinematography is very well done), there are numerous issues that just makes the movie clumsy and even lazy at points.
The Good
- Cinematography is well done, there are a few shots in this film worth pausing the actual movie for and taking in. Also, the flashback scenes are so well shot, they actually look almost identical to the legit footage mixed in through out the film.
The Bad
- Thin Characters, outside of Delroy Lindo, this was both a misuse and underuse of talent. The characters, outside of Lindo, had no arch and kind of just existed. Any revelations were through dialogue and fell flat. Lindo's character is the only one that has a full arch.
- Poor music choices, there was this intense gun fight during a flashback, and the music that played over it completely pulled me out of the scene. The music was a complete mismatch to the gun fight on screen. Also, the use of Flight Of The Valkyries when the boat pulled away from shore...I scoffed at this. I get the reference to Apocalypse Now, but this just didn't hit for me. Some of the song choices (outside of Marvin Gaye) left me scratching my head.
- Main cast was the same age fifty years ago they are today. Now, I was hoping there was a reason for this, so I reserved my judgement. There was no reason for this other than no one, NO ONE, saying "Uh, Spike...I don't think a 60-70 year old man would look the same as their 20 year old self." This was such a major oversight, that it made Spike come off as amateur. Then, at the end of the film, there's a photo of the five, and the cast is made up to look younger! Why didn't you use them in make up for the flash backs?!
- Art Design, this film doesn't look like a Spike Lee film. Other than the title, his usual style isn't present here. This is more of a personal knock, as I'm a fan of his art direction.
I could go on...the Vietnamese actor near the end coming off as slightly goofy instead of justifiably angry, telling instead of showing, Chadwick being horribly underused, etc. There was a possibly reference to the movie Dead Presidents' Vietnam sequence, but won't spoil it.
I can't recommend it. I'm a Spike fan, but this could be a sign that he's losing his edge a bit.
An Affair to Die For (2019)
Ridiculous
This movie held my interest until the end. I guess I was hoping for it to redeem itself, it didn't.
This movie was absolute cheeks. The main woman rubbed me the wrong way. She's cheating on her husband, who's also a retired surveillance cop? She never thought to bring this up to the guy she's having an affair with...strike one (not realistic).
Her husband calls her, tells her he knows about the affair, but that she's in danger, Everett is a "dangerous man"...literally, this was so lazily written and explained, it was so trash. What made it even more trash is that she immediately believes her husband, an ex surveillance coo who knows she cheating, about her mister being a "dangerous man"...strike two.
The ending was completely nonsensical, and did nothing to close out the story. The main woman, Holly, is more so the villain of the story.
I don't know, congrats on getting it made, but the script for this and some of the acting? Wack. It played like a bad soap opera.
A Vigilante (2018)
Flat
Olivia Wilde did great, but the movie came off as "Men are evil". There wasn't really one male character that was good. They were all kind of stereotypical abusers/deadbeats.
The story had no surprises, it went from A to B. No twists, no nothing.
I get the point of the film, but it came off heavy handed.
Great acting, flat story.